COURSE DESCRIPTIONS BY SEMESTER
For a complete list of the courses offered by the department from 2010 forward, visit the undergraduate course archive.
SPRING 2026 COURSES
Survey Courses
HIS 203: Ancient Rome
HIS 226: Modern Jewish History: Dilemmas of Difference
HIS 239: From Columbus to Darwin: Investigating Nature, Medicine, and Science in the Americas
HIS 247: Modern Korea/Visual Culture
HIS 251: Europe Since 1945
HIS 285: Games, Burlesque, and Spectacles: Popular Culture in 19th-Century America
Upper Division Courses (U3/U4 Standing or Professor Permission)
HIS 307: Silk Roads and Spice Routes
HIS 314: Indigenous-Settler Relations in the United States
HIS 330: European Intellectual History, 1870-1945
HIS 334: Women and Gender in Pre-Modern European History
HIS 340: The Snow Lion and the Dragon: Introduction to Sino-Tibetan Relations
HIS 344: Modern Japan
HIS 371: Law and Society in American History, 1620-1877
HIS 383: The World of Jane Austen
HIS 387: Cuba: Island of Consequence
HIS 390: "Outsiders" and "Deviants" in the Middle Ages
HIS 393: Topics in Modern European History
HIS 396.01: Perspectives on 9/11 Attacks
HIS 396.02 and 396.03: Environmental & Climate Justice
Level 301-Methods Classes
(Effective Spring 2026 - This course cannot be taken for GPNC)
Level 401 - Capstone Seminars (Prerequisite 301)
Permission required for HIS 401 courses; request link can be found in the History Newsletter on Brightspace. (Effective Spring 2026 - This course cannot be taken for GPNC)
HIS 401.01: Conflict and Consensus in American History
HIS 401.02: Empire & Identity
HIS 401.03: Taking History Public
Undergraduate Bulletin
Click here to go to the Stony Brook University Undergraduate Bulletin Online. The bulletin is published online and is updated and at the beginning of the registration of each fall semester. The Undergraduate Bulletin is produced by the Office of the Provost - Division of Undergraduate Education.